Category: Let's talk
I have been wondering. In the long hall, which is better. I mostly use Messenger, Ventrilo and TeamTalk and they are all the bomb. In my opinion. But I was currious what other people thought on this.
well to be honest i would have to say messinger. i've never heard of team talk and i can't use ventrillo becaus i don't have a mike on the computer.
I been honest have to say I haven't had such little to do with my life that I would be spending it trying all the different messenger programmes. I think talking to people face to face is better than talking to them via computers, and am therefore more keen to do that than to look for friends to talk to on different messenger programmes. I use MSN. Last time I used Yahoo found it incredibly difficult so didn't continue. What I am saying though is there's nothing wrong with chating to people over computer, but given the choice of chatting to my friends via computer or spending time with them, I would choose to spend time with them and make good use of that time. I wouldn't go looking for friends using computers though, I'm not lonely.
see, each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses. With ventrilo and teamtalk, obviously, both of them are voice chate programs, and both are very good at what they do, though personally, I prefer ventrilo. As for messengers, again, each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses, but personally, again, I'd prefer aim, simply because it's more stable then MSN, you can do file sharing, and I don't know...it's just something that I've grown much more use to over the years though I do use MSN almost as frequently. To be quite honest though, only reason I use MSN is because a lot of my friends are on it, or I wouldn't give it the time of day...but it's all good!
Hope this helps...
Ventrilo and TeamTalk are voice programs, I've only used Ventrilo for voice chatting on and off. ICQ was kinda difficult to use because not alot of my friends have it. Yahoo is alright to a degree. MSN and Aim are the better messenger programs.
I think MSN is the best, as I've never used AIM to know how that one is. But it should be Windows Messenger instead of MSN, as you never hreally have to update that one, or at least I haven't, yet. As for the voice chatting one's I can't say much about those since I've only used Skype.
Leilani
I like AIM and MSN and Skype also. teamtalk and icq didn't work for me.
Well as long as it worked, msn messenger was the best with jaws, because starting with jaws 5 and msn messenger 5, jaws read messages automatically. However, Msn messenger has it's drawbacks. For the one thing, us 98 users can't use it anymore unless we have xp and version 6.2, and a lot of people who have xp can't use voice chat because of the firewall. I only have 11 people on my aim list, and I haven't hardly been therein so long, they've probably took me of by now, although when I do occasionally get on it, I see about 3 or 4 people online. Jaws reads incoming messages, but it keeps reading older messages before it reads the last new ones, and that's so annoying. I hae aim 4.7, and jaws 6. Caitlin sent me the file for aim 5.2, but I think you have to have xp for it to work, because I got a message saying a dll file that was required, couldn't be found. Since I had the same sort of experience with paltalk and windows 95, I know this is the reason aim 5.2 won't install. I never used icq, because people said it was difficult, and for a contact number, you have a ridiculously numbers. With ventrillo, most of the servers are for broadband, and when i tried to connect to some servers, it told me it couldn't connect to server, and by the time I found a dial up server that worked, there was usually nobody in the rooms. I still have ventrilo on here just in case, but I think the only way ventrilo will ever work for me is if I have a special friend who has his or her own dial up server. Team talk wouldn't work at all, and either kept telling me, failure to initiate sound system, or creating illegal operations, and once it even made my computer freeze. Yahoo messenger is doable for just reading incoming messages, you just have to use the jaws cursor. I still have it, but I only had 5 people on my yahoo list, and navigating through the room categories was difficult.
wonderwoman
I like msn the most, but aim is alright, except it seems more apt to crash in my personal experience. Ventrillo seemed a little harder to learn right off, but it's audio quality and features are pretty good. Teamtalk's not bad either. As for skype, it's also good. I'm not as much a fan of ICQ, but it's doable. BUt there seem to be more robots and spammers on ICQ. So there're my thoughts.
msn and aol for imming. skype for voice chatting and making calls. VT for voicechatting in voice chatrooms.
Each program has its pros & cons. I used to love ICQ, as a matter of fact, it was the first IM program I used. But I like MSN now, & Skype for voice chat.
Bitwise for all my communications needs (voice, text messaging, file transfer, file sharing). If only Bitwise could voice conference. Skype for voice chatting, though it fills my other commo needs, as well. A problem, however: It slows my computer down, once I've started any Skype session. I also like Yahoo messenger for my communicating, though its voice chat has inferior audio quality versus Skype and Bitwise. I used to be a huge AIM fan, but, now, I find it pushes advertising at my computer, thus slowing it, especially once I've started a messaging session. I have contacts on all the messengers. Getting them all to move to Bitwise or Skype would be fabulous!
-Dave
ww. the reason why aim 5.2 had a dll error is because you have to uninstall the previous version. anyway. my messenger prefferences.
Aim for win 98 cuz msn don't work haha. and vt. I have teamtalk but never use it. Skype I had, but on dial-up it didn't work to well. ww, if ya wanna ask me more about aim I'll tell ya. even the newest version works with 98.
anyway. Peace,
Karrie
There is that, re: AIM. They don't force upgrades by disallowing connections to the server by older versions of the client, like MSNIM does.
-Dave
personally, i think aim is the best.
Not sure that Ventrilo and Teamtalk can really be compared with the instant messengers; those two are client-server voice conferencing tools, only; the others are multi-purpose communication tools.
-Dave
Teamtalk over Ventrilo, simply because you don't have the eight slot limit, and My conversations with the author show that most likely that's not coming any time soon. I use both MSN and AIM, don't need to give ICQ the time of day simply because the protocol has similarities, they are compatible. I'm gonna give Bitwise a shot, see what happens.
Should try TeamTalk for purposes of comparing it with Ventrilo.
Which is better. Real player 8, real 1 player, windows media player 9, windows media player 10, Quicktime, Music Match. ... Which is better, microsoft word, word pad, hj pad, notepad, ... All this programme comparing you people are doing suggests you need to get a life!